Contract: Fixed term contract for 6 months

Working hours:

• 3 days per week, fixed term contract for 6 months: late May – November 2025)
• Standard working hours are 9am – 6pm (with 1 hour unpaid lunch break) with the option to flex-start and end time. 
• We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or caregiving responsibilities, and personal goals.

Salary: €31,206 per annum (FTE)

Location: Midlands, Ireland.

There is a minimum expectation of 2 days of travel per week across the Midlands region to conduct outreach with partners.

Requirements: Candidates should have a full driving license and access to a car to enable travel for outreach.

ABOUT GENERATION

Generation is a charity in Ireland with the mission to support people facing significant and multiple barriers to employment into life-changing careers they otherwise could not access.

We achieve this with a unique methodology of profession-specific skills bootcamp training, focused on in-demand careers (specifically in the tech, healthcare and green sectors), with extensive, ongoing pastoral support and matchmaking to employer partners. 

The charity is part of a network of Generation charities launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand-led employment initiative. We have placed 100,000 people into roles, working with over 4,000 employer partners to date across 16 countries and 26 professions.

Since launching in Ireland in 2020, we have trained more than 600 people. Our work focuses on supporting those from diverse groups facing barriers to desirable employment. For these learners, we have achieved an industry leading 70% job placement rate with learners now placed at over 200 employers.

On this journey, we have implemented an education-employment initiative completely new to the Irish skilling ecosystem with sector-leading results. 

We have secured transformative corporate philanthropic funding from Microsoft, Verizon, JPMorganChase Charitable Foundation, Indeed, LinkedIn, Bank of America, Accenture, and more.  We have also built strong public sector partnerships, working with ETBS, Skillnets and SOLAS.

Day to day Generation Ireland works closely with its sister charity in the UK as a team of c.80 people.  By joining, you will become part of an organisation committed to social impact, changing the education and skills landscape, and changing people’s lives.. The work is fast-paced, exciting, and innovative. 

You can find out more about our work and impact in Ireland in our social impact report: https://ireland.generation.org/news/our-first-social-impact-report/

And you can hear more about our impact from our learners and beneficiaries themselves https://www.youtube.com/@GenerationUK-I/videos

And you can also learn more about our culture, directly from our incredible people on our website:

https://uk.generation.org/work-with-us/

Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect, and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice.  We carry out employment and right-to-work checks, and request a declaration of any criminal convictions from all staff as part of our recruitment process.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Generation Ireland has been successful in securing funding to support unemployed groups in the Midlands region to access our skills boot-camps.

As our Outreach Officer in the Midlands region of Ireland, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting mission – connecting people with life-changing training opportunities. You’ll be the face of Generation in the community, sparking interest, building powerful partnerships, and inspiring diverse groups to take their next big step. From local events to strategic collaborations, you’ll be out there making things happen – opening doors, raising awareness, and helping learners unlock their potential.

Day to day, your role will involve getting out and about to meet our partners and the communities they serve, planning and delivering inspiring in-person and virtual events and using our powerful datasets to track and iterate on the success of our outreach activities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Learner outreach, recruitment, and admissions:

• Conduct recruitment and outreach work to advertise our programmes to people in our target groups to generate applications and enrolments.
• Build and maintain partnerships with local charities, local authorities and other partners to identify opportunities to collaborate and to support recruitment, outreach and marketing efforts.
• Organise and run events (virtual and in-person) for prospective learners and referral partners to generate enthusiasm for and understanding of our programmes.
• Support the Outreach Manager in Ireland to track eligible applicant numbers and target groups.
• Ensuring participants in our programmes meet eligibility requirements set by funding partners and collect required documentation.

Requirements

PERSON PROFILE

To be successful in this role, we think you need:

• People-Person Energy – You thrive on building connections and making others feel seen, heard, and inspired.
• Passion for our purpose – You’re energised about creating social impact and believe in everyone’s potential to thrive in the right role.
• Networking skills – Whether it’s a local charity or a jobseeker, you know how to spark meaningful partnerships and conversations.
• Proactivity – You’re a self-starter, resourceful, and enjoy the opportunity to take ownership to get things done with the right support
• Communication skills – You’re confident and clear, whether you’re presenting at events, crafting messages, or listening with empathy.
• Curiosity and adaptability – You’re open to feedback, quick to learn, and always looking for smarter ways to make an even bigger impact.

EXPERIENCE

The ideal candidate will have:

• contributed to recruitment, outreach, community engagement or sales campaigns, ideally in an education or training setting
• experience working with harder to reach groups – this could include young people, people without degrees and those facing barriers to employment
• organised and managed in-person and virtual events
• have managed partnerships with external organisations
• have experience working to strict deadlines and targets in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable working independently.

Benefits

Benefits

At Generation, we’re changing people’s lives. Purpose and social impact at the heart of work in itself gets us out of bed each morning! However, beyond this, working with the team, you’ll get:

• Autonomy to own and take forward your own workstreams as part of an ambitious, fast-growing charity
• Flexible/hybrid working accommodating your preferred working pattern and needs and a work from home set-up allowance
• Professional development opportunities including an annual personal development budget, up to 5 days training/study leave and protected time for your own learning and development
• Volunteering opportunities with the chance to support our learners with mock interviews
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata)

A FAIR CHANCE 

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you. 

We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we’re committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset. 

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate.